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Armbian's weekly roundup of merged work focuses on Rockchip platforms, kernel and toolchain updates, and board enablement across several vendors. The post lists every merged change with its pull request.

Rockchip

• RK3528 gains a thermal driver and a cooling map on the first passive trip; legacy PCIe and pmdomain workarounds were removed.
• Radxa E24C now keeps its U-Boot environment in SPI flash and reads the MAC addresses of its switch ports from EEPROM.
• Device trees for the Mixtile Blade 3, Core3588E and Edge 2 were corrected.
• New board support: Boardcon SBC3568.
• Rock 5T now gets an edge kernel build.
• rk35xx boot scripts fall back to PARTUUID instead of a hardcoded root device.
• U-Boot builds were fixed for the 9tripod X3568 v4 and Graperain G3568 v2.
• The Rockchip BSP 5.10 "legacy" kernel is deprecated.

Kernels and build system

• Mainline moves to 7.3-rc4 and then 7.3-rc5.
• C23 build errors were fixed for D1 ATF/OpenSBI and for libbpf.
• The default FRAME_WARN (2048) is back on 64-bit configs.
• Abandoned imx6 patch directories for 6.1, 6.6 and 6.10 were dropped.
• Parallel patch queueing now starts from the largest set.
• linux-headers post-install now runs header_postinst.d, making DKMS ordering safe.
• The kernel is copied into a FAT32 /boot, which is given room for it.
• On Raspberry Pi (bcm2711), removing one of several kernels no longer wipes the firmware kernel.
• CI uses remote ccache only, and ATF builds honour USE_CCACHE.

Other boards

• ODROID-HC4: sleep and wake with PCIe, Wake-on-LAN and the RTC alarm; a usable SPI NOR clocked at 40 MHz; the SD card can be powered down (also on the C4).
• ODROID-XU4: edge kernel bumped from 6.15 to 7.2 (validated on the HC1); on-board Ethernet is named end0.
• Amlogic C400 Plus: SD-card boot and QCA9377 Wi-Fi profile fixes.
• Raspberry Pi 4B: support for Waveshare and Raspberry touchscreen v2 panels.
• Milk-V Duo S: stable MAC addresses. Inovato Quadra: an explicit HDMI mode for the switch-fed port. ZTL A568: OTG VBUS switch enabled.
• A new tm16xx display driver for meson64, and fixes for the T95Z Plus.

MorseMicro DKMS

• MorseMicro 2.1.0, with split MM6108 and MM8108 packages.
• Linux 7.1 API compatibility, and the module is now tested against many kernels in CI.
• Initial usage documentation and udev rules for NetworkManager; D-Bus integration removed from wpa-supplicant-s1g.

Configuration tools and repositories

• The firmware and kernel selectors no longer truncate a hyphenated LINUXFAMILY, and the RK3588 family remap also applies to rk35xx.
• New tuning profiles match a machine's actual role.
• ZFS for Ubuntu "resolute" is pulled from the arter97 PPA, and the Raspberry Pi archive suite now matches the release.
• The board-tests documentation page gained sections and a right-hand table of contents.

Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.